Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Pencil Face

Looking at other short films on Youtube, I came across Pencil Face. This is a drama with morals in the narrative. The caption for this video was "He'll help you draw, he'll help you erase, waste not want not, he is pencil face". This short video basically shows the audience how you should not take things for granted. The girl thinks that know that she has this magic pencil, she can get everything she wants and throw it away when she is done; this is what you see when she draws the kite. However, there is a sense of karma in the plot and she gets sucked into a black hole when Pencil Face notices that she has discarded the kite.
Watching this helped me come up with ideas for my narrative. I wanted to make my plot as realistic as possible, so instead of going for the fantasy approach with something magic happening, I based the plot around someone with a mental condition. Therefore, there will still be a moral in what my short film is portraying, but it will also educate my target audience about the mental condition and what the effects are. Moreover, the slogan for my film would be "the more she gets, the less she see's" basically implying how greed can make you take things for granted and that you never realize what you actually have until you stop to appreciate it.

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